The Hub Live

The Hub came to Atlanta on April 18^th, 1997, to perform in the Arts in the Village Festival at Georgia Tech. They were the inaugural performance in the hi-tech GCATT auditorium, which featured two ethernet connections for every seat, as well as a top-of-the-line audio system. They allowed us to record their performance for a webcast, as well as to produce this CD.

The recording was made to a single DAT using a pair of shotgun mics aimed at the auditorium's main speakers. The audio was then digitized into SoundEdit 16 and then brought into Deck II to adjust for balance.

Included as the last track on the CD is a recording of their final composition, "Luv Connection." This was a completely audience-driven experiment in which participants used their own computers on the local network to access a web server that was located on stage. Accessing a specific web page, the audience could trigger MIDI events from 26 possible selections, which were subsequently fed out to the various synthesizers connected to the hub.

The cover design was derived from a series of still frames taken from video shot during the performance, including some excerpts from the film "Battleship Potempkin."